The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!